Evans, Arthur: The shaft graves and bee-hive tombs of Mycenae and their interrelation (London, 1929)

HALF-ROSETTES AND 'TRTGLYPHS'

Porch, go back to its earliest phase. We may further conclude that it was
the work of decorative artists trained in the great Knossian school.

Amongst other details of the facade that point to the same conclusion

Fig. 51. Limestone Band with Half-Rosettes and 'Triglyphs' from Original
Entrance Portal, N.W. of Palace, Knossos.

Fig. 52. Part of Limestone Band with Half-rosettes and 'Triglvphs' from
Facade of ' Atreus' Tomis, British Museum.

are the finely executed decorative, bands of connected spirals in a broad and

delicate style which in the 'Atreus' Tomb formed the uppermost decorative

band immediately beneath the cornice.1 A fragment of this in the Nauplia

Museum is reproduced from a drawing of Monsieur Gillieron in Fig. 53.2 It

will be seen at once that it is identical both in design and style with the similar

band (Fig. 54)—restored from other fragments—found in an exactly parallel

1 Compare Perrot's restoration of the facade 2 Compare the more imperfect fragment in
{Hist, del'Art, vi, PI. VI). Perrot, op. at., p. 625, Fig. 273.